All-out Tower Defense: My Card-Drawing Talent is a Bit Strange

For example, this item can be used to fold the monsters' path in half, allowing them to spawn below Yang Fei's city wall. This way, even if the defensive towers currently only have the area right next to the war corridor are now within the attack range, instead of being outside, they can now be within range. This provides continuous damage output.

It's important to understand that at this stage, which is the beginner assessment stage, given the logic that monsters only rush towards the base, it's impossible for something like this that changes the path to appear.

Because if it happens, it's a forced reduction in difficulty. Normally, lords need to pass the novice assessment stage and have a sufficient Sky Island level before they can change the direction of the War Corridor.

The game developers, or rather, the tower defense world that runs this game, never intended for these trainee lords to have such abilities during the beginner phase. Even after they pass the beginner phase, the consequences of upgrading the Sky Island need to be considered.

For example, the number and types of siege monsters, as well as the strength of elite monsters, will increase as the Sky Island level increases. Is it really worth it to upgrade the Sky Island and bring about an increase in monsters in order to make the defensive towers output better?

Back then, the difference between monster stats and tower stats was not as small as it is now.

Currently, level 0 Beast slimes are still within one hit range of the arrow tower, but what about level 1 and 2 Beasts? Keep in mind that there are a total of 10 levels for Beasts, and the monster's stats will increase with each level up, so it might not be worth it in the long run.

At the same time, intelligent monsters will definitely appear at that stage. They will prioritize attacking the defensive towers, and in order to make the defensive towers more efficient in output, you actually cluster the defensive towers in specific locations.

By then, this kind of thing that changes the path will become quite useless, and there might even be some internal traitors. Are there any benefits? Definitely. But are there any drawbacks? The answer is also yes.

But at this stage, especially for beginners, the effect is completely different. It's like a god-tier artifact. Monsters will only rush to your base and ignore the defensive towers and the ground troops blocking them. This thing is now a cheat tool.

If used properly, Yang Fei even felt that this thing was the key to clearing all the extreme modes, and at least he would be able to handle the first wave of 10x extreme modes with ease.

Yang Fei directly entered God's-eye view and changed his war corridor into an almost inverted U-shape as planned. The entire 10-meter-long black mud swamp was used to turn the normal war corridor, and the monster exit was near his own city wall.

In short, your starting point is your destination!

Having accomplished all this, Yang Fei was still unable to calm down. His previously suppressed thoughts were reignited, and a strange smile reappeared on his face as he stretched out his palm once more.

Just as Yang Fei was about to grab the succubus girl by the neck, his eyes changed for a moment, and finally stopped on a mountain peak. After feeling the normal human temperature, he withdrew his hand, and his expression returned to calm.

Under the slightly surprised gaze of the succubus girl, Yang Fei took out the last white treasure chest and looked at her: "I think there's still more than one item inside, and I want to raise the stakes."

"Hehe, Lord, are you sure? I think there's only one item inside." The succubus girl became interested immediately after hearing Yang Fei's suggestion to raise the stakes, and placed her jade-like foot directly on the white treasure chest.

"That's right, open it." Yang Fei shrugged indifferently, gesturing for the succubus girl to open it. The succubus girl didn't waste any words and kicked the treasure chest open. A flash of white light appeared inside the chest, revealing two items.

A white card, and a coin he'd never seen before, gleaming gold, seemingly a higher-grade currency than silver. It was a gold coin. Yang Fei was extremely surprised to find it; it wasn't something that should appear at this stage. Based on experience, it should appear in the final waves of the novice assessment, with a small chance of dropping from certain special monsters.

Yang Fei first put the gold coin into his system space. This was a good thing; one coin was worth 100 silver coins. For Yang Fei now, it was like a hidden source of energy.

Then, Yang Fei picked up the white card and looked at the item on it. It looked familiar—a white stone slab. Yang Fei nodded. This thing was much better than the white arrow tower. It could add an extra defensive tower position in the war corridor. In some situations, it was even better than the flamethrower tower, which Yang Fei favored the most.

The main issue is that it's very difficult to obtain this item through monster-hunting at this stage. War Tablets are a basic product that is only unlocked when the Heavenly Path Shop is upgraded to the next level. Even if you sell them to the Heavenly Path Shop now, it won't unlock the right to purchase related items.

After using this relatively valuable card, Yang Fei expanded his War Corridor to include a new defensive tower. Speaking of which, the three treasure chest monsters that came this time were quite peculiar.

These three mimics are clearly thieves by design, and they don't drop other valuable items, but they keep dropping items related to defense towers. Are these things specifically designed to steal defense towers? That would be terrifying.

Core Thatched Hut (Ultimate): 1500 Resilience, 15 Defense, 15 Spell Resistance. The core building of the Sky Island. If it is breached, the defense is lost, the lord loses the Sky Island, and returns to his own world.

Core Thatched Hut (Upgradeable): Costing 1000 copper coins, you can upgrade the Core Thatched Hut to the initial Core Wooden Hut. The spiritual energy concentration in the surrounding environment will increase slightly, and the Sky Island will also be upgraded to a circle with a radius of 1000 meters.

Core Thatched Hut (Special): The Core Thatched Hut is highly bound to the lord. All of the lord's permissions are related to this core. Currently, it unlocks the system data panel, system warehouse, Heavenly Path Shop level 4, and the lord's exclusive abilities—move, adjust, and one-click collect.

The Lord's ability to transport people has been unlocked, allowing you to lead fifty non-Sky Island residents to and from Sky Islands. The system warehouse has also been expanded to 50 slots, and the stacking capacity has increased from 500 to 1000. The Heavenly Path Shop has unlocked some additional items beyond the basic rewards. (The Defense Tower Shop has unlocked gray and white quality War Tablets.)

Note that the core thatched hut has reached its level cap. The next upgrade will upgrade it to a gray-quality core log cabin, which will trigger a powerful monster siege. Successfully defending the hut will result in a successful upgrade; otherwise, it will be obsolete. Please choose carefully.

Note: If the upgrade is successful, the Sky Island environment will reach the most basic survival environment in the Tower Defense world. White quality defense towers can shorten the recovery time to half an hour. After upgrading to a white quality core building, the white quality defense towers can complete the cycle of firing in normal environment without needing to replenish energy.

Note that core buildings do not initially have a grade... The probability of monster harassment and random monster sieges will be increased.

After deducting another 500 copper coins, Yang Fei expanded his floating island to a radius of 500 meters. This boosted his confidence from the harvest. He wanted to attract as many monsters as possible in the early stages. Originally, Yang Fei wanted to upgrade to a higher level, but when he saw that the next level required upgrading a grade, he decided against it.